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No 291,024. Patented Jan. '1, 1884.

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'of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new the table or shelf, and ofbeing as quickly re- 1 UNITED STAT S" PATENT i t-NE.

CHARLES H. BENNETT, BLOSSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

.LAMP.

EPJQIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 291,024, dated January1, 1884.

- Application filed May 23,1883; (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES H. BENNETT, of Blossburg, in the county ofTioga and State and useful Improvements in La1nps,.of which thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to lamps provided with brackets or clamps forholding them in position on the table or other surface on which theymaybe placed; and it consists in a novel construction of an attachedbracket or clamp having a spring-hold, which not only readily admits ofthe lamp being firmly secured in position on a table or shelf by theattached clamp being slipped on or over the edge of moved when required,but which also forms a convenient handle for carrying the lamp fromplace to place, as when, for instance, the lamp is required for portableor general use. Its special though not exclusive use, however, is thatof a lamp for attachment to sewingmachine tables, buttery or pantryshelves, and kitchen and other like tables, to prevent the lamp beingknocked down orthrown off its supporting-surface, whereby loss of lifeand property so common to such accidents will be avoided.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part ofthis specification, in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 represents a side elevation of a lamp with clamp attached inaccordance with my invention, and showing the same as secured to a tabletop or shelf. Fig. 2 is a front end view of a clamp as appliedto thelamp-body, which is shown only in'dotted lines; and Fig. 3 is ahorizontal section on the line 00 x, in Fig. 1, omitting the portion ofthe table top or shelf shown in that figure.

A in the drawings indicates the body of the lamp, which may be anordinary tin one, with a saucer, b, beneath to catch dripping oil, andwhich may or may not carry a shade, c.

B B are two parallel rigid clamp-jaws arranged to project horizontallyfrom one side of the body of the lamp and at a suitable distance apartto receive freely between them the edge portion of a sewingunachine orother table top or shelf, C. Said jaws are open at their outer ends, asalso longitudinally on both sides, but are attached at their inner endsto a base or end piece, B of the clamp or bracket, which may be madewholly of iron or other metal. I The clamp may be secured to the body ofthe lamp by constructing the base-piece B to fit said body and fasteningit thereon. as also the jaws to the r place, by a strip of tin, (2,introduced between the jaws over or on the base B and soldering the endsof the tin down on the body A, as also applying solder in cavi ties leftby the hinder or tinned holder (1 or the'clamp may be otherwise suitablysecured to the body A of the lamp. The upper jaw,

B, of the clamp may, if desired, be faced or covered with cloth or softmaterial 6, to pre vent it marring the tabletop to which it may beapplied and to assist in the grip of the clamp. The lower jaw, B, has alongitudinal groove, f, made in its inner face, within which is inserteda flat spring, g, secured at its outer end to said lower jaw, so as notto interfere with the slipping of the clamp to its place,

but free at its opposite or inner end, and set so as to fly or workupward. The top surface of the upper jaw, B, and under surface of thelower jaw,B, are rounded off, so that the clamp may be conveniently usedas a handle for carrying the lamp about, as for kitchen or gen-' eraluse.

By the construction of the attached clamp as described the lamp may beas quickly secured upon the marginal portion of a table-top or shelf asan ordinary lamp having no such attachment can be set down in its place,and it may be as quickly removed when required and carried about by theclamp as a handle. The lamp, however, will be securely held in positionwhen slipped onto a tabletop or shelf as described, not being liable tobe easily knocked off, by reason of the bearing pressure of the spring 9of the clamp, loose to roll up at its inner end, and which, working inand out of the groove f, is guided or steadied in its action, whereby,also, an enlarged capacity is given for adapting the clamp to differentthicknesses of table tops or shelves. Ap-

plied to any one of a series of lower shelves in a buttery or pantry itwill hold secure without danger of firing the shelf above, inasmuch asthe lamp will proj eet outward from the shelf to which it is applied.

Used 011 a sewing-machine table, the light will be arranged at a properheight for the operator, and the lamp secured against being shaken orknocked oil, thus avoiding the risk of fire and loss of life andproperty consequent thereon.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desireto secureby Letters Patent 1. The combination, with a lamp-body, of an attachedclamp having upper and lower fixed jaws arranged to project parallelwit-h one another, and at a suitable distance apart from the side ofsaid body, and an interposed clamping-spring applied to the one of saidjaws, substantially as specified.

2. The holding bracket or clamp composed of a base or end piece, Bconstructed to fit on or against and be supported by the body of a lamp,fixed upper and lower parallel jaws, B B, arranged to project from theface of said base, and a clamping-spring applied to the lower one ofsaid jaws, essentially as specified.

3. The combination, with the lamp-body A, of the attached bracket orclamp-base 13*, the parallel upper and lower jaws, B 13, having a fixedrelation to said base, and projecting therefrom at right angles to thebody A, and constructed to form a handle for the lamp, and thelongitudinal clainpii'igspring secured at its outer end to the lowerjaw, but free at its opposite end. and arranged to work in and out of alongitudinal groove, 1, in the face of the lower jaw, substantially asshown and described, and for the purposes herein set forth.

CHARLES H. BENNETT.

\Vitnesses:

W. H. GAYLORI), l). S. Seonrnmi.

